The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-05-21
CASUAL QUOTATIONS.

10 keep duVauCauS VIII 1"o s'A~o'
is an equal necessity for women as for
men. Only. those who have had ex-
perience-who are actually making
the effort to order their daily lives SO
as to be equal to and in harmony with
the intellectual thoughts, the crowded
interests, and the stirring events of
the immediate present-are aware OF
the. hard work it entails, or of the
severn sfratn 1t is on the mind, body,
apdS@iste.E Ifyou move in the social
world your establishment must be on
par with those of your circle; the
number of your servants must be as
many; your cuisine as good; your
horses and carriages as fine; your rooms
aslperfect, fitted up with. all modern
! comfoftsJ replete with cunning luxu-
ries, and rare ornaments, and decorated
with accurate taste in accordance with
: the-idtest Development of design. 1t
is essential that your conservatives
yourself and children dressed in the
most approved fashion and the enter
tainments you give bear the stamp
Of novelty. One vies with the other
to challenge criticism and defy rivalry;
each is eager to carry OF the palm for
beauty, wealth, talent, popularity and
sensation. The attempt is herculean,
yet readily made by the majority of
those who are aiming to wipe off a
debt to society-impossibie TO cancel.
Be absent but short time from
society, and ON your return you find to
your chagrin, the place you vacated
filled up the interest formerly evinced
in you gone. You are out in the cold;
the small talk of to-day, the slight al
lusions to trifies of yesterday, the
references to anticipated pleasures
for tomorrow, are depths you have
not sounded aud seas you have not
sailed over you are stranded for the
moment. The popular preacher about
WHOM everybody raves; the last sen.
sational play; the latest scandal Of
which all tongues are wagging, you are
Ignorant of. True, you soon regain
the position temporarily lost, and the
warmth Of your reception is empha-
sized by the former neglect but all
the same you feel what q worry 1t is to-
gather up the lost threads of the tan~
Ried skeins Of the worlds doings and
sayings, and wonder If the reward Is
. equal to the fatigue you undergo or
worthy of the end gained.
Reading is an important assistance
in keeping up with the times. Books
should not-as they too frequently are
be selected in a loose, cratic way
that leads to no permanent results, but
with a. settled aim to gain information
on the different branches of each SUBJ
ject marked out for study, and, by a
system of steady progressive work,
eventually to master them.
1t is only by wide range of reading
that you learn the speculative opin.
ions Of savants, the most recent dis
coveries and have the thoughts trained
to reason out and to follow the argu-
meuts and deductions demonst rated by
scientists, theologians, and politicians.
Travelling is another help to ward Off
stagnatiop, and preventive against
cherishIng one-sided views of men and
manners. 1t is as common now for
everybody to travel as it was for the
select few to make the grand tour be.
fore railways were thought of, and you
labor under a decided disadvantage
If you do not visit foreign cities, or
cities remote from your home. 1t Ia
a part of the present education to eX-
perience the pleasures, or pains of freez-
ing under a semi-arctic, or melting
under the fierce suns aud hot winds of
semi-tropicai climate. The discom-
forts of life from home are whole
some preparation for contentment at
home. Many simple comforts aud
REQUESTS, Of which You take no heed,
but accept as Il matter of course, have
to be dispensed with, and bear au ap-
probable worth never perceived before
when they are again within reach to
use and enjoy. To be novice in the
customs, manners, and scenery of
countries, other than your own is bad,
but 1t is worse when, AS il sometimes
happens, people return to their native
home with knowledge, and limited
as when they started, with prejudices
strengthened rather than overcome,
and ideas not In the least degree eX-
tended. Such individuals are quite
secure in their own opinions, and are
not easy to persuade out of the fixed
notions they have imbibed. They